What Does Your Ocd Do To You?

[Winterkid]

I've managed to stop doing it, but when I walk past a light switch, I used to fully press the switch into the same position it was in, making sure it was either completely on or completely off. From when a faulty switch burst into flames from being between the two positions, I kinda got into that "habit" and it stuck too much.

Also I tend to double check things, even when I know how they are.
"Stoves off, but have to check again"

 

[Azure]

Oh boy, I could blow up this thread if I went into detail, but basically I have this thing where everything has to be "even" (Not numerically, but just even, like balanced in a sense, but not necessarily symmetrical) and just be/feel "right." It first started when I was rather young. It was quite simple then. If my brother or someone would hit me on my right arm, I'd wait for that person to go away or not look, and then I would hit myself on my left arm to make everything feel right to me. This still goes on to a degree, but it's evolved into an obscure thing. Now I have to sometimes touch things a certain number of times in certain areas to feel right. It's nothing specific and it varies each time (Whatever puts my mind to ease), but if you see my eating something you'd see my tapping the sides of a plate trying to make everything even (Like imaging the plate as a square and then hitting each side in the middle until everything is just right; each side doesn't necessarily get tapped the same number of times, some times some sides require a bit more force. In the end, the forces have to balance so the speak). When I started playing Stepmania and Beatmania IIDX things got much worse and this OCD started to mess up my gameplay. In IIDX, I'd have to constantly hit the keys and would hit extra keys in the song until everything would feel right, even if it meant that I would miss certain keys. In stepmania, the problem was with the darn "enter" button. I have these insatiable urges to constantly hit the enter button (But of course not to hold on to it so long as to exit the song) while in the middle of playing. People who have seen my play have remarked that it can be quite frantic and odd (Seeing me hit a bunch of arrows really quickly with my index and middle fingers, while my pinky is desperately smacking the enter button all the while and is resulting in me losing my combo frequently). Things got much worse when I started to associate this attitude with a sort of humming sound that I'd start to make. For a period of about 2 or so months, I'd make sounds with my mouth closed (Like a "Mmm!" not "delicious Mmm," but just "Mmm") and would go on rather long runs until I felt just right (And it'd take FOREVER! It'd torment me too because it'd take forever to get everything right -- Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmmmmmmmm...Mmm, Mmmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmmmmmmmm.....). It was so loud and frequent that my parents considered taking me to some kind of doctor (My dad started yelling at me from them, telling me to stop making noises and what not). I eventually got over it (Though it did come back for a short 2 week period), but my other tendencies remain.

So yeah, that's just a small tid bit right there. I could go on for ages, but I don't have the time to type it all up for you guys.

 

[jmetal88]

Oh boy, I could blow up this thread if I went into detail, but basically I have this thing where everything has to be "even" (Not numerically, but just even, like balanced in a sense, but not necessarily symmetrical) and just be/feel "right." It first started when I was rather young. It was quite simple then. If my brother or someone would hit me on my right arm, I'd wait for that person to go away or not look, and then I would hit myself on my left arm to make everything feel right to me. This still goes on to a degree, but it's evolved into an obscure thing. Now I have to sometimes touch things a certain number of times in certain areas to feel right. It's nothing specific and it varies each time (Whatever puts my mind to ease), but if you see my eating something you'd see my tapping the sides of a plate trying to make everything even (Like imaging the plate as a square and then hitting each side in the middle until everything is just right; each side doesn't necessarily get tapped the same number of times, some times some sides require a bit more force. In the end, the forces have to balance so the speak). When I started playing Stepmania and Beatmania IIDX things got much worse and this OCD started to mess up my gameplay. In IIDX, I'd have to constantly hit the keys and would hit extra keys in the song until everything would feel right, even if it meant that I would miss certain keys. In stepmania, the problem was with the darn "enter" button. I have these insatiable urges to constantly hit the enter button (But of course not to hold on to it so long as to exit the song) while in the middle of playing. People who have seen my play have remarked that it can be quite frantic and odd (Seeing me hit a bunch of arrows really quickly with my index and middle fingers, while my pinky is desperately smacking the enter button all the while and is resulting in me losing my combo frequently). Things got much worse when I started to associate this attitude with a sort of humming sound that I'd start to make. For a period of about 2 or so months, I'd make sounds with my mouth closed (Like a "Mmm!" not "delicious Mmm," but just "Mmm") and would go on rather long runs until I felt just right (And it'd take FOREVER! It'd torment me too because it'd take forever to get everything right -- Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmmmmmmmm...Mmm, Mmmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmmmmmmmm.....). It was so loud and frequent that my parents considered taking me to some kind of doctor (My dad started yelling at me from them, telling me to stop making noises and what not). I eventually got over it (Though it did come back for a short 2 week period), but my other tendencies remain.

So yeah, that's just a small tid bit right there. I could go on for ages, but I don't have the time to type it all up for you guys.

Wow...

Actually, I used to have that thing where I needed symmetrical "feelings" as well. I remember it used to bother me when my leg would brush up against something, and I would have to turn around or find something else to brush my other leg against. I also hated it when one side of me was in one temperature zone and the other side was in another (i.e. when the car air conditioner was blowing on me in an odd way and I couldn't get it adjusted just right I would shut off the vent).

 

[Fishbong]

You´re all freaks

 

[aapje89]

You´re all freaks

thats why we all have joined this forum

 

[sam fisher]

Oh boy, I could blow up this thread if I went into detail, but basically I have this thing where everything has to be "even" (Not numerically, but just even, like balanced in a sense, but not necessarily symmetrical) and just be/feel "right." It first started when I was rather young. It was quite simple then. If my brother or someone would hit me on my right arm, I'd wait for that person to go away or not look, and then I would hit myself on my left arm to make everything feel right to me. This still goes on to a degree, but it's evolved into an obscure thing. Now I have to sometimes touch things a certain number of times in certain areas to feel right. It's nothing specific and it varies each time (Whatever puts my mind to ease), but if you see my eating something you'd see my tapping the sides of a plate trying to make everything even (Like imaging the plate as a square and then hitting each side in the middle until everything is just right; each side doesn't necessarily get tapped the same number of times, some times some sides require a bit more force. In the end, the forces have to balance so the speak). When I started playing Stepmania and Beatmania IIDX things got much worse and this OCD started to mess up my gameplay. In IIDX, I'd have to constantly hit the keys and would hit extra keys in the song until everything would feel right, even if it meant that I would miss certain keys. In stepmania, the problem was with the darn "enter" button. I have these insatiable urges to constantly hit the enter button (But of course not to hold on to it so long as to exit the song) while in the middle of playing. People who have seen my play have remarked that it can be quite frantic and odd (Seeing me hit a bunch of arrows really quickly with my index and middle fingers, while my pinky is desperately smacking the enter button all the while and is resulting in me losing my combo frequently). Things got much worse when I started to associate this attitude with a sort of humming sound that I'd start to make. For a period of about 2 or so months, I'd make sounds with my mouth closed (Like a "Mmm!" not "delicious Mmm," but just "Mmm") and would go on rather long runs until I felt just right (And it'd take FOREVER! It'd torment me too because it'd take forever to get everything right -- Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmmmmmmmm...Mmm, Mmmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmmmmmmmm.....). It was so loud and frequent that my parents considered taking me to some kind of doctor (My dad started yelling at me from them, telling me to stop making noises and what not). I eventually got over it (Though it did come back for a short 2 week period), but my other tendencies remain.

So yeah, that's just a small tid bit right there. I could go on for ages, but I don't have the time to type it all up for you guys.

Wow...

Actually, I used to have that thing where I needed symmetrical "feelings" as well. I remember it used to bother me when my leg would brush up against something, and I would have to turn around or find something else to brush my other leg against. I also hated it when one side of me was in one temperature zone and the other side was in another (i.e. when the car air conditioner was blowing on me in an odd way and I couldn't get it adjusted just right I would shut off the vent).

I am the same!

 

[Loubear]

Oh boy, I could blow up this thread if I went into detail, but basically I have this thing where everything has to be "even" (Not numerically, but just even, like balanced in a sense, but not necessarily symmetrical) and just be/feel "right." It first started when I was rather young. It was quite simple then. If my brother or someone would hit me on my right arm, I'd wait for that person to go away or not look, and then I would hit myself on my left arm to make everything feel right to me. This still goes on to a degree, but it's evolved into an obscure thing. Now I have to sometimes touch things a certain number of times in certain areas to feel right. It's nothing specific and it varies each time (Whatever puts my mind to ease), but if you see my eating something you'd see my tapping the sides of a plate trying to make everything even (Like imaging the plate as a square and then hitting each side in the middle until everything is just right; each side doesn't necessarily get tapped the same number of times, some times some sides require a bit more force. In the end, the forces have to balance so the speak). When I started playing Stepmania and Beatmania IIDX things got much worse and this OCD started to mess up my gameplay. In IIDX, I'd have to constantly hit the keys and would hit extra keys in the song until everything would feel right, even if it meant that I would miss certain keys. In stepmania, the problem was with the darn "enter" button. I have these insatiable urges to constantly hit the enter button (But of course not to hold on to it so long as to exit the song) while in the middle of playing. People who have seen my play have remarked that it can be quite frantic and odd (Seeing me hit a bunch of arrows really quickly with my index and middle fingers, while my pinky is desperately smacking the enter button all the while and is resulting in me losing my combo frequently). Things got much worse when I started to associate this attitude with a sort of humming sound that I'd start to make. For a period of about 2 or so months, I'd make sounds with my mouth closed (Like a "Mmm!" not "delicious Mmm," but just "Mmm") and would go on rather long runs until I felt just right (And it'd take FOREVER! It'd torment me too because it'd take forever to get everything right -- Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmmmmmmmm...Mmm, Mmmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmmmmmmmm.....). It was so loud and frequent that my parents considered taking me to some kind of doctor (My dad started yelling at me from them, telling me to stop making noises and what not). I eventually got over it (Though it did come back for a short 2 week period), but my other tendencies remain.

So yeah, that's just a small tid bit right there. I could go on for ages, but I don't have the time to type it all up for you guys.

Wow...

Actually, I used to have that thing where I needed symmetrical "feelings" as well. I remember it used to bother me when my leg would brush up against something, and I would have to turn around or find something else to brush my other leg against. I also hated it when one side of me was in one temperature zone and the other side was in another (i.e. when the car air conditioner was blowing on me in an odd way and I couldn't get it adjusted just right I would shut off the vent).

I am the same!

Dude..that's messed up, I do that EXACT same thing. When I can't scratch something...I just start making a noise, and if it's too loud or too soft, I do it again..and again...and again. It's like this itching in my throat, the MMMING makes it go away for a sec, but its so goddam ANNOYING!

 

[Draken]

Well, atleast I'm not the only one with that symetric/feeling right problem. e.e

 

[sam fisher]

The reason we all have GP32/GP2x's as we are all obcessively compulsive and cannot stop playing retro consoles till we feel we have played them all evenly!

 

[nickspoon]

Whenever someone says something and then cuts off, I feel I have to finish it. Same with when I say something and am cut off - I finish it off to myself later on. It's usually just a word, although on occasions I find myself finishing whole sentences.

 

[ste_167]

[My Latin wife's OCD is much more fun. We get a kick out of detective "Monk" on TV because she shares a lot of his cleaning obsessions, which I love. Every 3 months she takes one or two rooms in the house and moves every piece of furniture, even the 30 gallon fishtank - but not the 800 lb piano.

I think your ocd is talking about your 'lovely latina'!!

 

[Hanz™]

[My Latin wife's OCD is much more fun. We get a kick out of detective "Monk" on TV because she shares a lot of his cleaning obsessions, which I love. Every 3 months she takes one or two rooms in the house and moves every piece of furniture, even the 30 gallon fishtank - but not the 800 lb piano.

I think your ocd is talking about your 'lovely latina'!!

:rolleyes:

 

[iignotus]

Whenever someone says something and then cuts off, I feel I have to finish it. Same with when I say something and am cut off - I finish it off to myself later on. It's usually just a word, although on occasions I find myself finishing whole sentences.

I'm like that but with music. If, for example, a movie score ends on a strange note that doesn't fit in the scale, I have to hum the 'proper' note or else I go nuts.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

[My Latin wife's OCD is much more fun. We get a kick out of detective "Monk" on TV because she shares a lot of his cleaning obsessions, which I love. Every 3 months she takes one or two rooms in the house and moves every piece of furniture, even the 30 gallon fishtank - but not the 800 lb piano.

I think your ocd is talking about your 'lovely latina'!!

:rolleyes:

haha so true!

 

[DavidBeoulve]

[My Latin wife's OCD is much more fun. We get a kick out of detective "Monk" on TV because she shares a lot of his cleaning obsessions, which I love. Every 3 months she takes one or two rooms in the house and moves every piece of furniture, even the 30 gallon fishtank - but not the 800 lb piano.

I think your ocd is talking about your 'lovely latina'!!

**GUFFAWS!**

Okay okay okay, thanks for triggering my OCD... so the County Manager comes to the County Computer Department for something - he knows me and stops by my cubicle, which he'd never actually seen before, and he sees all these photographs of Maria on the walls. Now, she's incredibly shy, as some Latin girls can be (being overly submissive was something that took me 2-3 years to iron out of her), and she looks at cameras as what they really are: an undetermined number of strangers staring at you.

So to get a good picture of her - I have to catch her in candid moments, smiling at a child, reacting to something, that sort of thing. The County Manager takes one look at all of this, smiles, and asks me "So who's this woman you're stalking?"

Everyone in the office got a laugh at that, and it's been Maria and my in-joke ever since. If I wasn't her boyfriend/husband, I'd be stalking her. Of course she has no concept of American-brand stalking other than what she's seen on the news, so she thought this was cute and called all of her sisters... and did they think I was a wierdo? No! They were all jealous!


Story #2:
The last time I got carded at a rated R movie, I was 24. I was mad because they didn't card Maria, but she was thrilled and laughed, ran home and called her sisters. They all accused her of craddle-robbing, and were jealous.

It really doesn't help that I am the only son-in-law who mom calls "Ejo" (ee-ho) which means "son" in Spanish. Maria's sisters whined at their mother "You don't call our husbands that." She succinctly replied "They don't listen to me."

I'm an American. I'll listen to anyone. Doesn't mean I'll do it, but I will listen, and after having 14 children, 11 surviving, Maria's mom is full of truth and wisdom.


End OCD trigger.
Man, you guys don't know the half of it - Michael / EvilDragon accidentally wrote me "I can tell your family makes you happy" and I read it on a Sunday morning, when I had no other distractions, and I sent him a mile-long e-mail. He was quite polite about it, noting things in his life.

Sometimes I freak people out.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

[My Latin wife's OCD is much more fun. We get a kick out of detective "Monk" on TV because she shares a lot of his cleaning obsessions, which I love. Every 3 months she takes one or two rooms in the house and moves every piece of furniture, even the 30 gallon fishtank - but not the 800 lb piano.

I think your ocd is talking about your 'lovely latina'!!

**GUFFAWS!**

Okay okay okay, thanks for triggering my OCD... so the County Manager comes to the County Computer Department for something - he knows me and stops by my cubicle, which he'd never actually seen before, and he sees all these photographs of Maria on the walls. Now, she's incredibly shy, as some Latin girls can be (being overly submissive was something that took me 2-3 years to iron out of her), and she looks at cameras as what they really are: an undetermined number of strangers staring at you.

So to get a good picture of her - I have to catch her in candid moments, smiling at a child, reacting to something, that sort of thing. The County Manager takes one look at all of this, smiles, and asks me "So who's this woman you're stalking?"

Everyone in the office got a laugh at that, and it's been Maria and my in-joke ever since. If I wasn't her boyfriend/husband, I'd be stalking her. Of course she has no concept of American-brand stalking other than what she's seen on the news, so she thought this was cute and called all of her sisters... and did they think I was a wierdo? No! They were all jealous!


Story #2:
The last time I got carded at a rated R movie, I was 24. I was mad because they didn't card Maria, but she was thrilled and laughed, ran home and called her sisters. They all accused her of craddle-robbing, and were jealous.

It really doesn't help that I am the only son-in-law who mom calls "Ejo" (ee-ho) which means "son" in Spanish. Maria's sisters whined at their mother "You don't call our husbands that." She succinctly replied "They don't listen to me."

I'm an American. I'll listen to anyone. Doesn't mean I'll do it, but I will listen, and after having 14 children, 11 surviving, Maria's mom is full of truth and wisdom.


End OCD trigger.
Man, you guys don't know the half of it - Michael / EvilDragon accidentally wrote me "I can tell your family makes you happy" and I read it on a Sunday morning, when I had no other distractions, and I sent him a mile-long e-mail. He was quite polite about it, noting things in his life.

Sometimes I freak people out.

tl;dr

 

[Klown]

You are a shitty troll.

 

[Mr.Jabberwocky]

It is a pretty sad state of affairs when love gets labeled as an ocd. Four kids later and still going strong. I hope BD and his LL have a long and happy life together. They obviously have something very special.

 

[iignotus]

You are a shitty troll.

tl;dr

 

[DavidBeoulve]

Heh heh well I was being facetious and going along with the joke, myself. Love comes in many forms, eros, agape...

I'm always game for getting a chuckle out of myself.

What is tl;dr?

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An abbreviation for Too Long; Didn't Read. Used when a writer didn't KISS. Most frequently associated with the Stream of Consciousness style of LiveJournal entry. Hey, the truth hurts. TL;DR in all its forms is bannable on Something Awful.

For a countervailing viewpoint, see TS;DR.

Ah. Cute, given we're in the off-topic forums to begin with. One thing I've faced in life is seeing how many (gets a call from Maria) people don't want to know when someone else is happy. If stream-of-consciousness writing was the culprit, we'll we'd better go back and tl,dr a bunch of posts quick!

Me? I try to like everyone. I like iignotus because he's smart and usually polite. ClassicGamer's moniker speaks to me on many levels. He seems spontaneous and funny at times.

I try to do my part for the community, aside from just being me, and hoping that people accept that as much as I do them.